Your latest thrifty book buys

[clueless]

I think I'll be tops with my last buy: Gorki's My Childhood, 1p.

 

[funes]

I'd say that somewhere between one half and three quarters of all my books have come to me by way of thrift shops, library sales, flea markets, etc. so the list could go on for quite a while. Some of my favorites:

1st edition of Kerouac's Visions of Cody from Goodwill for $1.
Neal Casady's The First Third for a quarter.
Most of Kierkegaard in nice usable bindings for a quarter each.
The South Seas edition of Conrad for $1 a volume.
The Raven edition of Poe for $1 a volume.

I could go on.

 

[Wabbit]

Since I don't seem to have it in me to post anything interesting these days, here's what I picked up at the store the other day (traded in a couple of terrible books that I won't name for these)

John Fowles - The Ebony Tower
Lidia Chukovskaya - The Deserted House
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (with a silly insert in the middle with photographs from a movie adaptation)
Angela Y. Davis - If They Come in the Morning (Clearly I'm being on top of current affairs)

I'm going to America on Monday - NYC mainly - so I half-fear that I'll go hog-wild in the many, many bookstores. My list of places to see seems to mainly consists of book stores and, uhm, the library. Shame I'm coming in *just* too late to go hear George Saunders hold a free reading ( Monday at Chelsea 6th Avenue Barnes & Nobles, in case anyone's wondering )

Have a good trip! Bring back books


I picked up Wolf in Shadow by David Gemmell and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman for £1 each.

 

[SFG75]

I'd say that somewhere between one half and three quarters of all my books have come to me by way of thrift shops, library sales, flea markets, etc. so the list could go on for quite a while. Some of my favorites:

1st edition of Kerouac's Visions of Cody from Goodwill for $1.
Neal Casady's The First Third for a quarter.
Most of Kierkegaard in nice usable bindings for a quarter each.
The South Seas edition of Conrad for $1 a volume.
The Raven edition of Poe for $1 a volume.

I could go on.

You got quite the collection there. Goodwill is a great source for literature and philosophy. I figure that some professor or student unloads their own books periodically, thus giving you a heck of a good deal on some books that you haven't read before or that you have, but can't quite recall from your younger years. Yes, they have trashy novels and that kind of thing too, but there are always some good diamonds in the rough.

 

[funes]

You got quite the collection there. Goodwill is a great source for literature and philosophy. I figure that some professor or student unloads their own books periodically, thus giving you a heck of a good deal on some books that you haven't read before or that you have, but can't quite recall from your younger years. Yes, they have trashy novels and that kind of thing too, but there are always some good diamonds in the rough

Goodwill is the tip of the iceberg (luckily) for me. Just today I picked up a Holmes pastiche (is that the right word?) by John Gardner for 40 cents in an antique mall. But, yeah, the end of the semester is a good time to make the rounds.

 

[Ell]

Just picked up these at a local used book store:

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood.
It's a hardcover in mint condition. I originally read a library copy and I've been looking for a good used copy ever since.
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro.
Another one I've been on the lookout for.
Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde (brand new)
Money - Martin Amis.
I think this is the most fortuitous find because I've been working my through Amis. The public library doesn't have a copy, so I was debating whether to shell out for a new copy.

. . . and all for $20. Makes me very, very happy!

 

[G4G]

Money - Martin Amis.

This is a corker of a book - dreadful 'hero', absolutely awful! Love it!

 

[Minniemal]

This [Money by Martin Amis] is a corker of a book - dreadful 'hero', absolutely awful! Love it!

Seconded! And that makes me want to mention how much I love Terence Blacker's Kill Your Darlings, his fabulously nasty response to MA's The Information.


But back to the topic of books and thrift: I think my signature says it all.

 

[SFG75]

I hit the jackpot tonight!

*Democracy; Henry Adams

*The winter of our discontent; Steinbeck

*The Moon is Down; Steinbeck

*The Essential Marx reader; Fisher/Marek

*Politics; Aristotle

*The History of Sexuality; Foucault

The guy who checked me out(no, I don't mean it in that sense!) talked with me for about half an hour about the books, we had similar tastes, so we compared notes on a few other works. Tonight was good!.

 

[Melin]

I go to several locally used bookstores and they really appreciate my business. Only if they don't have it do I order online. I also check out library book sales.

 

[SFG75]

I go to several locally used bookstores and they really appreciate my business. Only if they don't have it do I order online. I also check out library book sales.

Library book sales are the best!. They have them during the summer time where I live. It's absolutely insane what you can get. They are even cheaper than used book stores-though even they aren't as "cheap" as I'd like.

 

[JMS]

'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov for £1.25 (2nd hand) but looks like new and unread was going to buy it new tomorrow £8.99...well pleased...
Looking forward to starting it, hope its as good a read as I heard.

 

[SFG75]

Woot!

Ahhh!, can anyone tell JMS that Lolita is January's book of the month???

Found nine awesome books today Here are a few of the goodies off the top of my head.

Mike Royko-- "Sez who?,sez me"--Royko was a newspaper columnist for a good number of years, very humorous insight as to the people and things that made the city tick.

Joseph D. McNamara--Fatal Command--Police action story

E.L. Doctorow--"Ragtime"-Historical fiction, should be a great one!

Howard Blum--"Gangland"; An account of how the FBI brought down John Gotti.

W.G. Hardy--"The city of libertines"

Bob Haldeman-"Eyewitness to power"

Some weirdo--"Communist socialist propaganda in America's schools"-Early '60s book, strictly for humor.